When was the Windows installer that was used created? Are we sure this is not a bug that has already been resolved in development?
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote: > If someone wants to continue looking into fixing this, I've spent a few > minutes trying to track this down completely blindly (i.e. I didn't > actually run any code). > > The number 16 in '16 characters until whitespace appears' _seems_ to come > from: > http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk/Source/NSLayoutManager.m > method -drawGlyphsForGlyphRange:atPoint: line "#define GBUF_SIZE 16 /* > TODO: tweak */". > > Combined with Riccardo's mention that this may be related to DPI, and > following the call to C function GSShowGlyphsWithAdvances() from > http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk/Source/NSGraphicsContext.m > I'd say the fixer will want to look at > > http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/back/trunk/Source/cairo/CairoGState.m > method -GSShowGlyphsWithAdvances:::, and > > http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/back/trunk/Source/cairo/CairoFontInfo.m > method -drawGlyphs:length:on:. > > (I'll post this in the bug as well.) > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:50 PM Ivan Vučica <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Odd whitespace in the middle of a word is also a bug. It seems to happen >> after exactly 16 glyphs. >> >> I filed Savannah bug 47109 <http:///>. >> >> James, additional repro steps would be appreciated. Can you confirm the >> issue goes away if you follow Riccardo's advice? >> >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Riccardo Mottola < >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am pretty sure you have a resolution problem, I have seen this several >>> times on windows (and also on X11 on one FreeBSD workstation). >>> >>> Please set your Windows to "100%" and do not enlarge text and icons. >>> >>> For some reason, we enlarge the controls, but then use a small font to >>> draw the text. It would be best of course to "scale" up also the the font, >>> or, at least to ignore the resize and keep everything pixels-sized to >>> GNUstep, but currently it is hybrid. >>> >>> >>> Riccardo >>> >>> On 02/10/16 03:35, James Carthew wrote: >>> >>> Attached is a picture showing the rendering error. This was generated >>> using the pre-built windows files from the GNUstep website. >>> >>> >>> [image: Inline images 1] >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss-gnustep mailing [email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>> >>> >> -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com http://ind.ie/phoenix/
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